Author Question: Among the Ju/hoansi: a. children are expected to contribute to subsistence from the time they ... (Read 122 times)

Zulu123 · **on:** Jul 10, 2018

Among the Ju/hoansi:

a. children are expected to contribute to subsistence from the time they reach puberty (around 14 or 15).
b. elderly people past the age of 60 are expected to contribute hunted or gathered food to the group, as they are being taken care of by others now.
c. elderly people are a valuable source of knowledge and wisdom about hunting and gathering and are consulted regularly.
d. elderly people are taken care of grudgingly because after the age of 60 they contribute nothing to the group.
e. children are expected to set up their own separate households by the time they are 16.

Question 2

Which of the following situations represents a flexible/integrated pattern of gender division of labor?

a. A pastoral nomadic camp in which the men spend most of the time with the herds, and women remain in camp and make butter and clothing.
b. An intensive agricultural society in which the men are out plowing the fields from dawn until dusk while the women are making bread, gathering eggs, making baskets, and other household work.
c. A foraging society where both men and women contribute to daily food consumption, share in responsibilities, and sometimes exchange duties.
d. An industrial society in which a factory worker leaves for work at 7 a.m. and returns home at 5:30 p.m., while his wife takes care of the children at home.
e. A factory where both men and women work, although women are the managers and men the line workers.